The right box for a system worth keeping — small, named converter, and designed around the fact that good amplifiers outlive their inputs. Key figures: Network player · Wi-Fi and Bluetooth · Cirrus Logic converter stated · compact. It is a European model with no Amazon.com offer on October 25, 2026. Our score: 7.8/10, specification-checked.
What it is for
Adding network streaming to equipment that predates it. Teufel states that purpose explicitly, and it is a better description of this product than any specification: the value is that nothing else has to change.
The converter, named
Cirrus Logic. Naming the part means its own manufacturer’s specification applies, which makes the claim checkable. Two products in this catalog do that, and both are on this shelf.
What is not published
The maximum sample rate and DSD handling. On a digital source those are the numbers, and this listing does not carry them.
Where it sits against a Bluetooth receiver
Above it. A Bluetooth receiver depends on the phone: the phone decodes, the phone stays in the room, and the codec limits what arrives. A network player fetches the stream itself over Wi-Fi and the phone is only a remote control.
The practical detail
It is small. On a shelf already holding an amplifier, that decides whether it fits — and a streamer that has to go somewhere visible is a different purchase from one that hides.
Buying it in the United States
Not sold on Amazon.com when we checked on October 25, 2026. This is a model of the European catalog: we hold Amazon references for it in Europe only, so the button can only run a search on Amazon.com. Read it as a description of the design, and buy from the list below.
On this shelf, with an Amazon.com offer on October 25, 2026:
Names its converter manufacturer, like the Magnat and unlike most of this shelf
Explicitly designed to modernize an existing system rather than to replace one
Small enough to hide behind or beside an amplifier
Compromises
No maximum sample rate stated
Service support is a licensing question and changes with firmware
A compact box with a converter inside is limited by its power supply in ways a full-size component is not
Specifications
Type
Universal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network player — stated
Converter
Cirrus Logic — stated by name
Purpose
Adds streaming to older audio systems — stated
Size
Compact, described as easy to install anywhere — stated
Maximum sample rate
Not stated in this listing
Amazon reference
B07942M78D
EAN
4048945025937
What gets asked most
Will it work with any amplifier?
Any amplifier with a spare analog or digital input, which is almost all of them. That is the point of this class of product: it adds a capability without asking anything else to change.
Is this better than a Bluetooth receiver?
It does more. A Bluetooth receiver takes a signal from a phone; a network player fetches the stream itself over Wi-Fi, which means better quality and no dependence on the phone staying in the room. Both are here, and this is the more capable one.
Our score
7.8/ 10
The right box for a system worth keeping — small, named converter, and designed around the fact that good amplifiers outlive their inputs.
Who should pick this one, among network audio players
An amplifier or a compact system that predates streaming, where the goal is to keep it rather than replace it.
Sources
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Wireless audio streaming player in aluminum black playing digital music files including WAV, AAC, WMA and MP3 through a dedicated USB Type A connection, with a dedicated power supply and an adjustable display with a graphical interface, published with bullets describing an optical system, CD playback and a loading tray
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Best for: A bedside table — the alarm and backlight handling is the best on this shelf
